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Roy: There's nothing wrong with liking what you like. As a teenager in the 1970's, I thought it would be weird not to know every song on the pop chart. The other day I didn't recognize the name of a single performer on a pop chart. It momentarily made this 45-year-old feel like a relic, but I got over it.

I do like a lot of New Country, guitar led stuff Brooks and Dunn, Toby Keith, I suppose I am guilty of not keeping up with music trends but what it really comes down to is I can't identify with bands a hell of lot younger then me, same in life to some degree,I was down sized as Americans call it a few months back and took a job at a far less salary, but being perfectly honest found it difficult to adjust to some kid 25 years younger than me telling me what to do,so quit, I'll get over it I hope, but when for the last 25 years the boot's been on the other foot as they say, it is difficult. Or am I just getting old!

Oh well... on the other hand, if we consider the Searchers, for example (yup!), at the time they had most of their hits - they all were 22-25 at the time! Usually, i don't mind, but sometimes it occurs to me, "hey, those guys were younger than i am now at the time they recorded it!"
(oh yeah... one of my bosses, who counts my salary, is 5 years younger than me, right out of the University... well, i say it's no problem, but do i really think so?..)

"Coloured Americans"?

Nothing too personal, but I believe your time warp comment might be appropriate, Roy!

Yeah, I'd have to say...that went out with the 'Flesh' crayon in the Crayola box...

That reminds me of an ol' clip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSPnG_pMUf8&feature=Recent&page=14&t=t&f=b

Even my black friends got a kick outta this guy.

I'd forgotten about the 'Flesh' colored Crayola, Dane, likely for good reason. We weren't too right-minded then, were we?

That's what really drives me about all the PC rhetoric. We get issued a new PC word for everything every couple of years.
Black becomes African American, Indian becomes Native American (or North American).
Alternative lifestyle, _________ challenged, etc.
Every African American & Native North American I know calls themselves either Black or Indian respectively. I personally don't see the terms as any kind of an insult & neither do they.

Perhaps the good folks who come up with these terms figure that the extra time spent learning, spelling, & typing these words keeps people out of slightly more trouble than the old terms!

No offense meant to anyone, but if the new terminology is meant to make us think a little more sensitively about others, then it's failed miserably from the evidence I've seen.

We need real education on the subject, not a change of subject.

Not to change the subject, but...once when I was working at the Drafting counter of a local Art store, a nicely-dressed professional-looking African American couple came in. They came straight up to my counter, and the woman asked (without the slightest hint of irony) if we had any flesh-colored markers...I just about froze up, then sent them on to the Graphics counter. I spent the next several minutes looking for hidden cameras, sure that one of my friends had put them up to it.

Incidentally, I consider myself a European American...no joke, just reality.

Regarding that youtube clip, if we said that (but the other way round) here in England, we would be locked up for incitement to racial hatred.

There are only two things you can't say here: "I've got a bomb in my shoe" and "Up yours, Mr. Trump"...

Great thing to say when crossing the border #374:
"Anything to declare?"
"Yeah, it's in the trunk, between the guns & the drugs!"

Same here Peter.

That is gentlemen is not practising his right to freedom of speech IMO.

Gee, Ronn, thanks for the words of advice!

Not willin' to cause waves, just curious: is this "feministic" language i've read about somewhere ("shero", "herstory", etc, etc) a true thing or just a joke?.. In fact, being a linguist (or, to be more precise, a graduate from linguistic department), i cannot see any logic there - no offence meant, of course...